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by waivej 16y ago
To me he seemed like a primitive cyborg. I'm having fun imagining what we'll see in 20-30 years. Also it's the hidden the gold makes panning fun. These guys are using fancy tools to strip it out and leave thrift stores with piles of left
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by waivej 16y ago
Your comment made me smile. This year I gave up sugar and processed grains and made some interesting observations. 1. Eating wheat seems to cause floaters in my eyes - but only processed wheat. I can eat all sorts of grains from the bulk
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by waivej 16y ago
while (6!=9) // Hendrix loop {...}
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by waivej 16y ago
This post bothered me probably because going to Burning Man reinforced the side of me that wouldn't demand a free meal because of poor service. Burning Man (at least for me) was a place where you would go with a big crazy project that you c
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by waivej 16y ago
It's not too hard to get good gas mileage on open roads. A few years ago me and my girlfriend drove a 2001 Honda Insight 1040 miles on one 12 gallon tank. (85mpg - fully loaded with luggage + nasty traffic.) In the Tour De Sol rally, we
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by waivej 16y ago
My primary desktop is 7-8 years old...? (p4 2g ram, win2003 server) It feels the same speed as my 1 year old Macbook. I mostly use it for programming, Photoshop, and video editing. Edit: It's been running the whole time except for moves a
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by waivej 16y ago
We had three old transformers that drew 20 watts each. The drier draws around 6000 watts for 40 minutes. Though I usually use a mode that uses less heat. Anyway, I have a gauge by the sink showing the current usage and monthly total. It'
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by waivej 16y ago
I personally think we should have consumption guages on our major energy users. Getting a hybrid woke me up to this and I have since added one to the house electrical system and built one for our heat. The cool thing is that it gave an in
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Calvin & Hobbes "Search Engine"(michaelyingling.com)
21 points by waivej 16y ago|5 comments
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by waivej 16y ago
For a few years I dated a girl (translator) that spoke several languages fluently. She would talk with her father on the phone and sort of regress to the age/personality she had when she primarily spoke that language. In English she was a
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by waivej 16y ago
This whole thing reminds me of "Animal Farm". "Four legs good. Two legs better."
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by waivej 16y ago
I'll guess it's 2010-02-02...
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by waivej 16y ago
That's great. You've changed the way I think about that. Napster was peeking in 2001 and I was incredibly inspired by the platform. As a photo geek with broadband (for 3-4 years by then) I figured it was a perfect fit...until I realized t
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by waivej 16y ago
For me it was a Facebook style photo sharing system (2001 - before Friendster and years before Myspace or Facebook). I worked on it full time and turned the code into a CMS to make ends meet. Though, there are lots of "waves" of technology
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by waivej 16y ago
Mine was spending four days straight building a MS Windows style environment in x86 assembler. The assignment was Conway's Game of Life so I went a little overboard. It lead to a research job on parallel computers, access to amazing compu
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by waivej 16y ago
Slide film like Kodakchrome actually captured a pretty narrow dynamic range. It was harder to get right, but it rewarded you with more "bits" in the colors. For example, I did a test with print film and systematically tried different expos
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by waivej 16y ago
It is indeed sad. Kodachrome 200 was my favorite film. I loved the way it would go blue when overexposed and red when underexposed. I even have a panroamic photo on my wall I took at "Kodachrome Canyon". It was named because the red roc
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by waivej 16y ago
$30,000? Isn't the filing fee around a few hundred dollars . I guess they have some big lawyer fees. http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/qs/ope/fee2009september1...
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by waivej 16y ago
Let's just hope our economy holds out. It reminds me of a photo of a German shoveling money into a woodstove because it was so devalued...and the folks were ready to listen to someone promising a way to be a world power again.
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by waivej 16y ago
There was a good talk by the Adafruit folks at HOPE this weekend. They mentioned using Authorize.net and not storing the cc numbers on their own site. I don't know if the video has been posted yet, but check www.hope.net. It covered all s
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by waivej 16y ago
I know a New York Times photographer that had an unhealthy love of hers. It was so old to be laughable...but it kept going and going. It's cool to have a computer so tough you don't use a case. (and years later to be debating replacing it
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by waivej 16y ago
I priced out some servers and cloud providers. It appears that the "cloud" servers are about 30% more expensive. Though the gap widens when you start building bigger machines (32G RAM, latest processors, etc.) EDIT: I'm looking at 2-16G
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by waivej 16y ago
His tips are very good. I also like the book "Breakthrough Swimming". It's really amazing how the techniques change/improve. About 8 years ago I was taking "triathlon" swim lessons and they were showing things unveiled at the recent olym
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by waivej 16y ago
OK, I like the idea to use a "hidden" captcha to block automated spam bots. However, I don't think a hidden blank field is enough. Maybe you could use javascript to set a value in that hidden field. Or make sure the client loaded the empt
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by waivej 16y ago
According to their radio show "Off The Hook" (July 1st - http://www.2600.com/news/view/article/11980 ), they might have something setup so he can still deliver the keynote.
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by waivej 16y ago
Yeah, me too. I really enjoyed listening to the recordings from "The Last Hope". http://www.thelasthope.org/talks.html I think the hotel got "saved" by the economic downturn so they scheduled another one. (I think they talked about it
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by waivej 16y ago
Cute... It reminds me of proofs my father designed into a barn he built years ago. http://waiveris.com/project/fractals/barnwindows/
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by waivej 16y ago
This reminds me of a snippet from Buckminster Fuller's "Critical Path". He's talking about specialists and generalists and how we rarely see the big picture of what's important. "Nobody is born a specialist. Every child is born with compre
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by waivej 16y ago
I think a good engineer can do both roles. With enough experience, they know when it's time to refactor and build nice fresh code. Other times they will know when to just keep things running until there is time to rebuild properly. Though
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Julian Assange (Wikileaks) to speak at HOPE Conference in NYC in 2 weeks?(thenexthope.org)
4 points by waivej 16y ago|9 comments

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